CORRUPTION: In Haiti; in East St. Louis

In Haiti; in East St. Louis

Anti-occupationists in Haiti could smile wryly at the U. S. Government's discomfiture last week. For months rumors had seeped through the steaming black republic that crookedness was being investigated in the U. S.-controlled customs house at Port-au-Prince.

Three weeks ago the Brothers Zrike, rich Syrian-American merchants, were clapped into jail for participating in customs frauds. Their stores throughout the island were locked up under Government seal. But what, the opposition Press wanted to know, was to be done about their accomplices? Was there one law for...

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